Socialist Aotearoa 18/06: From Istanbul to Sao Paolo- the Planet of Slums Arises! - Branch Meeting Thursday

Kia ora to all members and supporters of Socialist Aotearoa,

They put up the price of public transport in Sao Paolo. They used bulldozers on the trees of Gezi Park. But in both cities, the initial attacks by the neo-liberal empire on the rights of people and planet were followed by the violence of the plastic bullet shooting, tear gas choking RiotCop.

Now there are hundreds of thousands of people rising up in both countries. We have had enough of neoliberalism. Many have had enough of capitalism itself. What began in Tunisia two years ago is spilling into the streets of Europe and America.

In Auckland, there is a seething resentment at the destruction of the working class community of Glen Innes. There is anger at gridlock and a public transport system that is not working. There are strikes breaking out led by some of the poorest workers in Aotearoa at the McDonalds of Panmure, Clendon and New Lynn.

Could one of these struggles ignite a wider movement, as happened in Sao Paolo or Istanbul?

Come to the Socialist Aotearoa forum in Unite this Thursday at 7.30pm.

Socialist Aotearoa Forum - From Istanbul to Sao Paolo- the Planet of Slums Arises! - Branch Meeting Thursday

When: 7.30pm, Thursday 20 June
Where: Unite Union Office, 6a Western Springs Road, Kingsland, Auckland
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/380340758733648/
Recommended Reading: Mike Davis - Planet of Slums

See you on the streets,
Socialist Aotearoa
www.socialistaotearoa.org

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